[GreenKeys] SMOKIN' 15

[Pete Lancashire]

I remember trying to visualize the inside of the house as George was
describing it.

After I got home from Georges about 3 or 4 hours later, I had some what got
use to the smell. The next day after getting up the bathroom with the
clothes hamper smelled like a run down dive bar. Even after immediately
washing those clothes it took days for the smell to go way.

Even thought the 15 has been in storage since I got it from George, you can
still smell the cigs.

-pete





On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Geo. Hutchison <w7tty at centurylink.net>
wrote:

> Hah!!!!!
>
> I remember that machine!!
>
> Came from the estate of a Mr. Larry Parks, a little known but technically
> brilliant telephone equipment measurements engineer who passed away maybe
> three or four years ago.
>
> Larry was not a licensed ham but was a regular listener of ITTY when it
> was still on the air as WC2XPF.
>
> Larry was indeed a smoker. He also had no love for the model 15 pulling
> magnet selector, and either rewound or rewired the selectors. He did not
> like the holding magnet selectors because they were more difficult to
> adjust.
>
> There  were three or four model 15s in his estate, mechanically in good
> shape save for the cobbled selector magnets and the stink of the cigarettes.
>
> I helped the family dispose of all of the teletype gear, and there was
> much of it.
>
> He also had the most complete collection of the ARC-5 military Command Set
> Radios. There were pieces and accessories that were unbeknown to some very
> die-hard ARC-5 fanatics.
>
> That ARC-5 collection is now in the hands of the Seattle Telephone Museum.
> It was on display since Larry's demise but has recently been moved to the
> warehouse where all of the museum giveaways are being stored prior to
> dispersal. The museum was particularly interested in the ARC-5 collection
> because Western Electric produced a considerable quantity of ARC-5
> components, and if some gadget had "Western Electric" stamped or otherwise
> attached to it, they wanted it.
>
> I think Sarah has the best info of what they are going to do with it, and
> she is on a trip to California at this time, so she will have to be the
> bearer  of whatever might happen to Larry's Display.
>
> It was well-appointed in a custom wooden display arrangement, and best of
> all, IT ALL WORKED!!
>
> W7TTY
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